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meetings correctly. He resigned himself rapidly to accept his fate with dignity while still stating his innocence, but was disappointed in the justice he had received, as laid out in his last letter before his death. Russell was later pardoned as having committed no part in a directly treasonous plot, casting the evidence as
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where he prepared himself for his death. Monmouth offered to return to England and be tried if doing so would help Russell, and Essex refused to abscond for fear of injuring his friend's chance of escape. However, he was tried and convicted of treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered,
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Russell did not confess; in fact, he pleaded that he knew of no plot to execute the king and was not party to any conspiracy to do so. He is recorded as having admitted to conspiring to levy a war. Such a mini-invasion ultimately took place and was successful; simply put, Russell did not time his
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On that occasion, Ketch wielded the instrument of death either with such sadistically nuanced skill or with such lack of simple dexterity – nobody could tell which – that the victim suffered horrifically under blow after blow, each excruciating but not in itself lethal. Even among the
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and the opposition leaders. They sought to cripple the king's power of hurting France and to compel him to seek Louis's friendship; that friendship, however, was to be given only on the condition that Louis support their goals. Russell entered into close communication with the
670:, leading for the prosecution, conducted the trial in a sober and dignified manner quite different from his normal bullying style, and, while stressing the strength of the evidence, reminded the jury that no innocent man should have his life taken away. 526:, who was a convicted "plotter", in preventing a more painful method of execution—an indulgence afterwards shown to Russell himself but other historians disagree. On 18 December, he moved to refuse supplies until the king passed the Exclusion Bill. The 284:, a seat traditionally held by a member of his family. For many years, Russell appears not to have been active in public affairs, but to have indulged in court intrigue, and is not recorded as speaking until 1674. In 1663 and 1664 he was engaged in two 587:
sheriffs for London in 1682; upon the 1683 violation of the charters, however, he began seriously to consider the best means of resisting the King's government. In October 1682, he attended a meeting at which what might be construed as
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and accelerate the accession of his Roman Catholic brother, appear to have affected Russell more than his otherwise sober character would have led people to expect. Russell threw himself into the small party which looked to
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to use me so inhumanely?'" However, Ketch "repudiated the charge" that Russell had paid him twenty guineas the night before the execution (although he stated it was "true I receav'd 10. Guenies" from him on the
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bloodthirsty throngs that habitually attended English beheadings, the gory and agonizing display had created such outrage that Ketch felt moved to write and publish a pamphlet titled
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According to the pamphlet, Ketch allegedly "did such a bad job that, after the axe hit the side of Russell's head, Russell looked up at him and said, 'You dog, did I give you ten
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After the verdict Russell's wife and friends made desperate efforts to save him, making pleas for mercy to the King, the Duke of York, and the French Ambassador,
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Whigs later commemorated him as a mistreated martyr, supposedly put to death in retaliation for his efforts to exclude James from succession to the crown.
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having come over at this time, the opposition leaders were open to a compromise on the exclusion question. Russell, however, refused to give way.
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It was not until the formation of the country party (the forerunner of the Whig party), which opposed the policies of the
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races. However, the plot was disclosed to the government. Unlike several co-conspirators, Russell refused to escape to
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Anti-French, warmongering alarms which culminated in the "discovery" in 1678 of the first "conspirators" of an alleged
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contended that the pamphlet was "probably written by Ketch himself", author Stephen Wade describes the provenance of
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Russell spent his last day peacefully in the Tower, spending the morning in devotions with the Scottish archbishop
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By the standards of the time (when those charged with treason rarely escaped death) he received a fair trial.
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On 4 November 1678, Russell moved an address to the King to exclude his brother James (at the time the
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18th-century artist's impression of Lord Russell's last moment with his family before his execution
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He and Francis were at Cambridge University in 1654. They then travelled abroad, visiting
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politician and nobleman. He was a leading member of the Country Party, forerunners of the
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Lois G. Schwoerer (1985). "William, Lord Russell: The Making of a Martyr, 1683–1983".
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Plaque commemorating the execution of William Lord Russell in Lincoln's Inn Fields
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took the throne, Russell was elected as a Member of Parliament for the borough of
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He had no share in the schemes of Whig Lord Shaftesbury after the election of
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stated that Russell opposed the indulgence exercised by Charles to the
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in Hampshire. It was probably at his wish that his chaplain wrote the
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met at the house of one Mr Sheppard, a wine merchant. There they met
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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People executed under the Stuarts for treason against England
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of Baron Russell and was thus referred to as Lord Russell.
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afterwards commuted by Charles II to death by beheading.
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On 15 February 1677, in the debate on the 15 months'
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Index

William, Lord Russell
Lord William Russell
The Right Honourable

Lincoln's Inn Fields
Cambridge University
Member of Parliament
Rachel Wriothesley
Rachel Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford
Lady Anne Carr
Country Party
Whigs
Charles II of England
English House of Commons
Catholic
James
treason
William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford
Duke of Bedford
Lady Anne Carr
courtesy title
Lyon
Geneva
Augsburg
Woburn Abbey
Woburn
Restoration
Charles II

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